Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03

| foreign foe should come we want men
! like those of 1912, and like those who
fought on both sides in 1862. We want
them sll up and down the coast, Pulaski
and Fort Sumter, in the same chorus
of thunder as Fort Lafayette and Fort
| Hamilton, men who will not only know
how TO fight but how to die. When such
time comes, if it ever does come, the
generations on the stage of action will
say: My country will care for my
family as they did in the Soldiers
Asylum for the ophans in the civil war,
and my country
WILL HONOR MY DUST
as it honors those who preceded me in
patriotic sacrifice, and once 8 year at any
rate on Decoration Day, shall be resur-
rected into the remembrance of those for
whom l died. Here go for God and my
country" If foreign foe should ever
come all sectional animosities would be
oblitersted. Here 60 our regiments
into the battle, side by side,
Fifteenth New York Volunteers,
Tenth Alabama Cavalry, Four
teenth Pennsylvania Rifemen Tenth
Massachusetts Artillery, Seventh South
Carolina Sharp Shooters. have no faith
in tie cry: "No north, no south, no
east, no west" Let all four sections
keep their peCuliarities and their prefer
ences, each doing its own work and not
interfering with each other; each of the
four carrying its part in the great har-
mony-the bass, the alto, the tenor, the
soprano in the grand march of the Union.
|. ] congratulate you, the officers and
soldiers of this National Encampment,
that if Q foreign attack should st any
time be made you would be ready, and
kfhsfe would be millions OF the drilled
Imen of north and south, like the men OF
my first text, which could keep rank, and
like the men of my second text, tlat
would not miss s hair-breadth.
At this National Drill, when thirty-One
Estates of the Union ere represented,
land between the decoration of the
FgrsyesF of the southern dead, which
took place few days ago, and the deco
ration of the graves OF the northern dead
which shall take place TO mOrrOW,I would
stir the Christian patriotism and graft
tude, not only of this soldiery here pres
ent, bat of all the people, by putting be
fore them the difference between these
times, when the soldiers of all sections
meet in peace, and the times when
THEY MET IN CONTEST.
Contrast the feeling Of sectional bitter
ness in 1862 with the feeling of sectional
unity in 1887. At the first date the south
had banished the national air, "The Star
Spangled Banner" and the north had
banished the popular air of "Wsy Down
South in Dixie" The northern people
were "mudsills" and the southern
people were ''wbite trash.n The more
southern people were killed in battle, the
better the north liked it. The more
northern people were killed in battle, the
better the South liked it. For four years
the head of Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson
Davis would have been worth 81 100000,
if delivered on either side the line. No
need now, standing in our pulpit and
platforms, of saying that the north and
south did not hate each other. To esti-
mate how very dearly they loved each
other, count up the bOmbshells that were
hurled and the carbines that were loaded
and he cavalry horses that were mounted,
north and south facing each other, all
armed, 5h the attempt to kill. The two
sections not only marshalled all their
earthly hostilities, but tried to reach up
ard get hold of the sword of heaven, and
the PRAYER Of the northern and southern
ems about the BEST mode of settling this
trouble than was ever used. For four
Years both sides tried to get hold of the
aEord's thunderbolts, but could not quite
yeach them. At the breaking out of the
war we hsd not for months heard of my
#dear uncle, Samuel J. Talmage, president
.of the Oglethorpe University in Georgia.
He was about the grandest man | ever
! % rood q . crnnh pDnlI no Tho
first we heard of MIN was his opening
prayer in the Confederate Congress in
Richmond, which was reported in the
NsHK1rk papers, which prayer if an
s9sfGd would, to say the least, have left
all his northern relatives in very unCOm-
Portable circumstances. The ministry ct
the north prayed one way, and the minis
try at the south prayed the other way.
No use IN hiding the fact that the north
and the south cursed each other with q
whitening emo
ALL-COESUAING CURSE.
Besiaes that antip&thy of war time I
place the complete accord OF this time.
Not long ago a meeting in New York was
held to raise money TO build @ home at
Richmond for crippled Confederate SOL
diers, the meeting presided over by a
mau who lost an arm and g leg in fighting
on the northern side, and the leg not lost
so hurt that 1t does not amount to much.
The cotton exhibition held not long ago
at Atlanta was attended by tens of thou
sands OF northern people, and by Gen
eral Sherman, VINO was greeted with
kindness, as though they had never seen
him before. At the new Orleans exhibit
ton, held two years ago, every northern
state was represented. A thousand fold
kindlier feeling after the war than before
the wal. No more use of gunpOWder in
this country, except for rifle practice, or
Fourth Of July pyrOteChnics, or a shot at
q roebUCk in the Adirondacks. Brigadier-
generals in the southern COnfederacy
making their fortunes as lawyers III the
northern cities. Rivers Of Georgia, Ala
bama and North Carolina turning mills of
New England capitalists. The old lion
Of war-FOrt Sumter, and Moultrie, and
Lafayette, and Pickens, and Hamilton,
sound asleep on their iron paws, and in
stead of raising money to keep enemies
out of our New YORK hsrbOr, raising
money for the BarthOldi statue on Bed
loe's Island, figure of Liberty with up
lifted torch to light the way to al who
want to come in. Instead Of war an
tipathies when you could not cross the
line between the contestants without
lighting your way with keen steel or get
ting through by passes carefully
scrutinized at every step by
bayonets, you need only rail
read ticket from New York to Charleston
or New Orleans, TO go clear through, and
there is no use for any weapon sharper
or stronger thsn a steel pen. Since the
years of time began their roll, has there
ever been in about two decades such